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Olympic tsunamis:The site of the original Olympic games in Greece seems
to have been flooded and eventually buried by repeated tsunamis, a new study
suggests.

Olympia, near the western coast of the Peloponnese, was buried under thick
layers of sand and other deposits up to eight metres (26 feet) deep, says
Professor Andreas Vött of the University of Mainz. They are too massive to
have come from flooding of the Kladeos river, which is far too small, he
says.

It has long been assumed that the sanctuary at Olympia was destroyed by an
earthquake in AD 551 and then